Athletics Notes: Deadline, Lopez, Guerra

The Athletics recently went ice cold, a fact acknowledged general manager David Forst today. “Unfortunately, it’s colored a lot by the way we played the past three weeks,” Forst said of the club’s first half, per Martín Gallegos of MLB.com. He said that they did play well for a while but admitted that they “obviously need to start playing better baseball in a hurry.”
A few weeks ago, the A’s were 38-38 and held the final Wild Card spot in the Amer